Ha I would have never thought to look on the back and probably would have instantly thrown it away. That's one of those "good day" groups you get every now and then from some guns. Good stuff

Shotguns with a load they like amaze me... I had a Sweet 16 that would shoot them like a rifle, I know it would have been a sin, but I've often wondered what it would have done with a scope on board.

And old roommate bought a Savage Model 94 in 20 GA, aquired a massive amount of old Winchester super speed paper hull slugs and proceded to amaze me with what the little pump gun and he could do. He still has the gun and he still ocassionally takes a deer with it.

While I know this group was @ 200 yards, most people who shoot slug guns are happy if their rifled slug gun consistently groups 4-5" @ 100 yards. If a person got that type of accuracy out of $2.00-$4.00 per round from their centerfire rifle they'd have a fit. Sluggers are happy....or @ least realistic.

I'll use a slug gun shooting fiocchi slugs for some of my deer hunting when the shots are going to be pretty close (75 yards or under). The fiocchi's cost me .80 cents per round. If I'm going to hunt where shots may be potentially longer, I'll carry my muzzleloader. It groups much better than any slug gun I've ever seen much more consistently and for much less than $2.00-$4.00 per round.

Jim

As I was sitting at the edge of a plowed field watching my Father moving in from my left on a nice buck straight out in front of me, I remember the shot as if it just happened. A long yellow flame from his Winchester Model 12 and 200 yards away the buck drops! Don’t know what slug load he shot in it, but he shot it as if it was a rifle! He even had make shift sights to put on it during deer season.

I have a Model 11-87™ Sportsman® ShurShot™ Synthetic Turkey and with slugs it's a tack driver at 100 yards!

Well Douglas, at least you did not waste any good meat with that shot and he went down quick!! ;)

shotguns work great for deer. especially up close and personal like! but i also would not shoot at a deer at 200 yards with one. if the area was that open, i would use a rifle. if it was in a shotgun only area, we have the option of shooting a muzzle loader as well, and between the two i have, i would use the muzzle loader. now, if we could just use smokeless powder in our muzzle loaders during regular firearm season, that would be a real improvement.

Douglas,
That reminds me of a friend of mine! Shot at a Buck in Archery season from about 75 Yds down an old logging road. He was standing broadside in the middle of the road and looking at him, knowing he was busted by the buck he decided to shoot for the heart/lung area and hope, and arrowed him right between the eyes! PURE LUCK! The deer dropped like a rock! One of those "Hail Mary" type shots that paid off. Had to chop the Skull open with a hatchet to get the broadhead out though. Luckily(?) it wasn't a "trophy" buck!

The first time I stepped into the woods to deer hunt, was with my buddys 1100 Remington and a slug.Prior to opening day,I asked him what was the first thing I would notice on a deer,his reply,"A White tail."

My next question proved to be the un-doing of my first whitetail deer. "Where do I aim at?" He told me to take the Texas heart shot.

Sure enough,after falling asleep on my first hunt,I woke up to freshly fallen snow. I walked down to the creek bed to find a fresh set of tracks. I followed them into a thicket,and got caught-up in the vines and decided to vacate the entanglement.

After being liberated,I looked across the creek bed I had just crossed after my outdoors nap, and seen my first sign,the proverbial whitetail waving sayonara,bye-bye,I'm outta here.

After the 8-pointer threw up his "target" I swiftly pulled the trigger ... he folded up like an accordian. The slug entered his "Texas heart", and travelled up to the backbone, and ricocheted off of it, and caught a lung and his boiler room.

I was surprised how quick the slug proved to be so fatal,a 45-yard shot,with no tracking.

Slugs, and slug guns to shoot them in; have come a long way that's for sure. My first years deer hunting in our "Zone 3" in Michigan I use an old Mossberg pump with polychoke that I was lucky to hit a basketball at 20 yards with...it thew most slugs high 10 to 15 inches.
I carried mostly OO buck in it, and had to watch more then a few deer walk away unharmed from the limited range.
This pattern at 200yds is quite impressive, indeed!

Zermoid,
Your friend sounds like one I have. He was always one of those lucky SOB's. He was archery hunting and had a deer moving straight away at 75 so he rainbows it and the damn arrow hit the deer right in the spine and dropped him.

My old model 12 will shoot win.2 3/4" rifled slugs into about 3" at 40 yards and won't come close to the 3" mark with either Rem. or Fed. This is as far as I would shoot anyway but it's always nice to know what a particular gun will do. One of my friend has a scoped 20 ga. with a rifed bbl. and his groups at 100 yards are on the average of 2 1/2".

Never shot a deer with slugs from my shotgun; I've always used buckshot due to the swampiness where I hunt. 30 yards there is a long shot.
I did gain respect for pumps and slugs however when I was in law enforcement and we had to qualify with the shotgun.
The last course of fire was at the 50 yard line, 3 shots offhand and 2 kneeling. I was surprised at how well those shotguns shot the slugs; especially so when your job depended on it. I did not like those lightweight Ithacas however (Model 37's???). They were brutal on the shoulder. I always qualified with my Mossberg 500 and took it with me on duty.